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How to use the word prescribe in a Sentence?

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The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org

added by upthetotempole
1 year ago

It is one thing to identify a harm and prescribe a remedy, in the case of Evanston …we have been led to understand and appreciate that home rule taxes are our most viable way to fund reparations being that they’re within our purview.

Rue Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to safely prescribe Paxlovid, the potential for DDIs needs to be considered by all prescribers, both to take actions to manage DDIs and also to determine whether Paxlovid is an appropriate treatment choice for each individual patient when factoring in the risks of serious adverse reactions due to DDIs.

The FDA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was scrambling to find places that could prescribe it because my own institution just became a bureaucratic nightmare. So I basically would be referring people for treatment outside my own institution to be able to get monkeypox treatment.

Jeffrey Klausner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not clear that the latest FDA move means that states couldn’t enforce different abortion restrictions against doctors who prescribe medication abortion, or pharmacists who fulfill prescriptions, or people who take medication abortion to induce an abortion.

Leah Litman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's hard from the outside to prescribe exactly how a company should organize itself but the consultants clearly concluded that the haphazard way that twitter is organized ends up with siloed relationships between employees that slows things down and does not create incentives for people to come together and coalesce around a problem.

Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're getting Evusheld from states, but pharmacists don't have the authority to prescribe it, so their hands are tied.

Michael Hogue

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That a classroom teacher – who, by the way, has the ability to prescribe ‘book club’ events and vacation reading activities – has such disdain for the very people who pay her salary is mind-boggling, but it does paint a picture of the overall cluelessness we find ourselves up against.

Andy Hogue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ever since he was a little kid, he always wanted a doctors' outfit, he would dress as a doctor because his medicine was love. He would visit family members at the hospital, check their vitals, talk to the nurses and prescribe a special medicine for them : love.

Joe Simons

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Paul has been able to speak to our parents by phone, paul is sick - he's indicated he has a 102F temperature and that prisoners are sharing around any over-the-counter medications they can spare. Paul also said he was receiving antibiotics, although if he has the cold virus he thinks he has, it's not clear why the prison medical staff would prescribe them.

David Whelan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I would like Jair Bolsonaro to stop talking stupid nonsense. The doctors have to prescribe, not the President, with this fascist, anti-indigenous, anti-poor government, it did not take prevention seriously. It did not prepare, ignoring that the government is by the people, for the people.

Crisanto Rudzö Tseremeywá

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

Baruch Spinoza

added by Normando
3 years ago

I certainly would not recommend that people in the U.S. ask their physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID, its use is entirely speculative.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It does not prescribe a process for a fair trial, and the American people desperately want to believe that the Senate will give both the president and the House of Representatives a fair trial, we will be appealing as managers to the senators today to live up to the oath they have just taken, to do impartial justice and to hold a fair trial.

Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We prescribe them more and more, i think for Janssen it was too late, and there's no coming back.

Louis Bessette

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …

Justice Anthony Kennedy

added by Normando
4 years ago

The adult LEMS community is thrilled and trying to move forward in getting the new drug through off-label, we have asked my mom's doctor to prescribe the drug as an off-label drug, and then we will need to go through the insurance process.

Krishan Patel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the multiple sclerosis field, there are a very small number of physicians who prescribe Acthar, and I've never understood why these physicians do that, if these accusations are true, it may provide an explanation.

Dennis Bourdette

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The purpose of the ratings is to help inform and guide parents, not to prescribe social policy.

Matt Bennett

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's in these areas where many hospitals and doctors are located, and in some cases, where many patients are insured, it makes sense that opioid marketing would be concentrated in areas where doctors can prescribe and where people have insurance to help them purchase medications.

Scott Hadland

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Health care providers have a long tradition of being hesitant to prescribe to people they haven't seen, there is a certain skepticism.

Edward Hook

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This case .. has shone a light on the use of cannabis medicine in this country and highlighted the need for the government to explore the issue further, and our handling of these issues further, as a first step, I can announce today that the government is establishing an expert panel of clinicians to advise ministers on any individual applications to prescribe cannabis-based medicines.

Nick Hurd

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

As a first step, I can announce today that the government is establishing an expert panel of clinicians to advise ministers on any individual applications to prescribe cannabis-based medicines.

Nick Hurd

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Any physician that chooses to prescribe any medication for reasons other than patient need faces threat of significant sanction... as well as potentially criminal and civil penalties.

Thomas Madejski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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